Maxime de la Rocheterie on Marie-Antoinette

"She was not a guilty woman, neither was she a saint; she was an upright, charming woman, a little frivolous, somewhat impulsive, but always pure; she was a queen, at times ardent in her fancies for her favourites and thoughtless in her policy, but proud and full of energy; a thorough woman in her winsome ways and tenderness of heart, until she became a martyr."

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

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Friday, November 29, 2013

The education reform known as Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
for grades K-12, adopted by forty plus states and more than half of the
U.S. dioceses, is designed to produce a universal “work force ready”
population prepared to self-identify as “global citizens.” Many
education professionals have been critical of CCSS. But even they may
not know the philosophical reason why financiers like Bill Gates have
bankrolled the Common Core system. The same sources of funding for
Common Core in the United States are promoting similar methods and
aligned texts world wide through the auspices of the United Nations.

In Crisis, readers learned that Common Core is financed with
over $150 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The
collaboration of the Gates Foundation and the United Nations Educational
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has been well
publicized. In addition, Gates, on behalf of his Microsoft Corporation,
signed a 26-page Cooperation Agreement in 2004
between Microsoft and UNESCO to develop a “master curriculum” which
included benchmarks and assessments. The agreement stipulates that
“UNESCO will explore how to facilitate content development.”

Some have decried Common Core as the nationalization of American
education. Far more dangerous, however, is the globalism of Common Core
that demotes American values, undermines American constitutional
principles and detaches students from their families and faith. Common
Core is simply the newest attempt in the decades-old battle (Outcome
Based Education, Goals 2000) to impose a U.N. globalist worldview aimed
at “peace,” sustainability and economic stability at the expense of
freedom.

Briefly, the globalist philosophy calls for the establishment of a
global culture based on a commitment to sustainable processes and
humanistic ethics to ensure world peace and “fair” distribution of
natural resources. The U.N. serves as the hub for this globalist hope.
Adherents believe that some form of world congress and world
citizenship is the end point of political evolution, and, therefore it
is inevitable. What is not certain, in their view, is the time of
fulfillment. (Read more.)

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